Social Facilitation

Social facilitation refers to the effect that the mere presence of other people can have on performance.The effect can be positive - facilitating performance or negative - inhibiting performance.Think about a situation where you perform a task alone or in the company of other people. What effect do you think other people might have on how you do?For example - if you go for a run/bike ride alone vs running or biking with a group. Would you run or bike faster or slower with others present?

Imagine answering quick fire maths questions.

Do you think you would perform better at maths questions if you write them down by yourself or if you have to stand in front of the class and call out your answers?Why might this be?

Zajonc's Drive Theory suggests that the presence of others triggers an innate response of increased drive or arousal.What do we mean by arousal in a sports context?Look it up right now....!

Activity: Quizzy QuestionsYour job now is to work in pairs to write some quiz questions to test our knowledge and understanding of Social Facilitation and Drive Theory and Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation.We will use the questions in a Kahoot quiz. You need to provide one correct answer and three possible wrong answers for each question.Get cracking....pass them to me as you're done and I will build the quiz.